About her home in Martin Station Cross Road (Dallas County Alabama. This is a post Antebellum Cemeteries for mulatto and Negros (African American) prior to desegregation..Martin is near Safford and Orrville which are unincorporated communities in Dallas County, near Selma Alabama. Azion is the post Antebellum Cemetery where many Negro (African American) of the 1900-1960's are buried. may West as she was called or Aunt Mary.. This cemetery is located near Orrville off Highway 22 Coordinates: 32°17′17″N 87°22′17″W Coordinates: 32°17′17″N 87°22′17″W).
It served mostly antebellum and postbellum rural communities of former slave or freed slaves families in the area probably up to 1970. These families are now replaced by urban dwellers near larger communities. These were families of former slaves and sharecroppers that turned the vacant town lots near their community Churches into cemeteries and burial plots, though soon, even this cemeteries and the people moved away and largely disappeared. What remains today are unmarked and unkempt graves of ancestors and overgrown with most abandoned grave markers. GPS data:Coordinates: Latitude: 32.65500, Longitude: -86.96750
I will cross my fingers and hope for success in getting a photography of this Cemetery! Although there are no " Find A Grave" photo volunteers in this Safford/Orrville area, of Dallas County, AL, so, I hope that someone might see our request and take a photograph of her grave site.
